Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the idea behind it. High dynamic range. First experienced by most consumers in late 2005, with Valve’s Half Life 2: Lost Coast […]
Google spoofed via DKIM replay attack: A technical breakdown
This morning started with a call from a friend – clearly shaken. He had just received an alarming email that looked strikingly legitimate. Unsure whether it was safe or a scam, he reached out to me for help verifying its authenticity. What followed was a deep dive into the message to determine whether it was […]
Anthropic teams use Claude Code
Anthropic’s internal teams are transforming their workflows with Claude Code, enabling developers and non-technical staff to tackle complex projects, automate tasks, and bridge skill gaps that previously limited their productivity. To learn more, we spoke with the following teams: Data infrastructure Product development Security engineering Inference Data science and visualization Product engineering Growth marketing Product […]
Celebrating 20 Years of MDN
What would a birthday celebration be without cake? Well in the web world, cakes have a very special place. There’s a long-standing tradition among browser makers of sending cakes to each other to mark major milestones. A good cake matters a lot to keep a spirit of collaboration alive between teams who compete at times, […]
Alto turns your Apple Notes into a website
Alto turns your Apple Notes into a website. You can create a blog or a website. Or just share few notes with your friends or colleagues. Every Apple Note becomes a page on your site. You can use text, images, audio, video etc. Focus on writing. No more tools to learn. The steps are simple: […]
Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
People tend to put a lot of trust into their phones. Those devices have access to no end of sensitive data about our lives — our movements, finances, communications, and more — so phones belonging to even relatively low-profile people can be high-value targets. Android devices run free software, at least at some levels, so […]
Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
The global payments processing market is dominated by two major players: Visa and Mastercard. These two companies account for 90% of all payment processing outside of China and have a combined market value of approximately $850 billion. How is it possible that, in the era of global competition, such a large market niche is completely […]
Upsides and Downsides
Every startup founder knows about Geoffrey Moore’s concept of “crossing the chasm”–that you have to change your marketing and sales approach as you gain marketshare fit a more conservative buyer. But most fail to internalize what crossing the chasm means when it comes to their product. I recently stumbled upon Adam Mastroanni’s post on strong-link […]
New Aarch64 Back End
This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2025. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. July 23, 2025 Author: Andrew Kelley & Jacob Young Jacob upstreamed his new backend yesterday. 275 src/codegen/aarch64/Mir.zig 138 src/codegen/aarch64/abi.zig 11799 src/codegen/aarch64/encoding.zig 10981 src/codegen/aarch64/Select.zig 905 src/codegen/aarch64/Disassemble.zig […]
Intel CEO Letter to Employees
Lip-Bu Tan announces 15% workforce reduction Ahead of the financial news from Intel INTC 0.00%↑ coming out later today, the following message was sent to Intel employees from the CEO. We’re sharing it here in full, with commentary to follow. Key points: Q2 2025 revenue above guidance 15% headcount reduction to 75,000 50% streamlining of […]